Improvement in names for harness



L. P. BROWN.

HAMES FOR HARNESS. I\T .179,Z61.. Patented June 27.1876.

mtnesses Inventor NFETEHS, PHDTO-LITHQGRAPHER, WASHINGYON. Dv C.

UNITED if:

IMPROVEMENT I N HAMES FOR HARNESS;

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,261, dated J nne27, 1876; application filed April 15,1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEWIS P. BROWN, ofCleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Harness-Hames, of which the following isa description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, makinga part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side view of asection of a hame. Fig. 2 is an edge view.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in theseveral viewspresented.

The nature of this invention relates to a harness-hame, and thepurposeof which is to cause the hame to draw flat and evenly upon the collar,thereby preventing the edge of the hainefrom chafing and cuttingintotheleather, as hereinafter more fully described.

The hame-ring, to which the. neck-yoke strap is attached, is usuallysecured in the hame by an eye or staple. To this end a hole is boredthrough the hame for the admission of the shank of the staple or eye.This hole for the eye weakens the hame at the place subject to thegreatest strain, in consequence of which the hame is liable to break atthat particular place, to avoid which the ring is sometimes hung in thetrace-staple. This is also objectionablaibr the reason that the ringused is simply a plain ring or circle, and when hung in the trace-stapleit projects directly out from the plane or face of the hame and collar,the result of which is to cause the inner edge of the hame to draw hardupon and cut into the collar. To avoid this injury to the collar and theweakening of the hame by boring holes therein for the stapics, I useacompound ring, consisting of the larger one A and the smaller one oreye B.

By means of the 'eye the ring is hung to the trace-staple (J, as will beseen in the drawings. The neck 0, connecting the ring and the eye B, isso bent that the ring and eye are nearly at right angles, therebycausing the ring A to lie flat upon the face of the collar and nearly inthe direct line of draft, as will be seen in the drawings. I

' By the use of the compound ring the tendency of the hame to turn ortwist and cause the inner edge thereof to cut into the collar is nearlyif not wholly avoided; also, the ring, by lying fiat upon the face ofthe collar, or nearly so, is neater in appearance and not in the way. Byhanging the ring in the trace-staple, the expense of an extra staple oreye for the ring is avoided, and the hame is not weakened by boringholes therein for the extra eye or staple.

The ring A is represented as being round but it may be of any othershape without changing the nature of my invention, asherein set forth.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

. The hame attachment consisting of the ring A and eye B, at or near aright angle to each other, and connected by the neck 0, substantially asand for the purpose described.

LEWVIS P. BROWN.

Witnesses:

J.-H. BURRIDGE, WM. DAVIS.

